Rotating toy



Nov. 26, 1935. STERN 2,022,390

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Patented Nov. 26, 1935 umTEDsTATss PATENT OFFICE ROTATING TOY Arnold Stern, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application November 12, 1934, Serial No. 752,596 V 2 Claims. (01. 46-59) This invention relates to rotating or whirling pose and effect of which, in co-operation with toys operated by a cord with various speeds and the rotating of the shaft in, will be more fully in alternate directions, and has for its main obexplained hereinafter. Disk [8 also may have ject to provide a toy of this character of a novel various designs and ornaments 2i painted there- 5 design and effect. on. 5

Another object of this invention is to provide The operation of my toy is as follows: a rotating toy of the type described which will The hollow globe I2 is held in one hand of the be extremely simple in construction, inexpensive" player, whereupon shaft I is rotated to wind up to manufacture, easy and interesting to operate, the cord on the appropriate portion thereof, 10 and attractive in appearance. as indicated by 22 in Fig. l. t A quick pull or jerk 10 Still a further important object of my invenis now given to the cord 65, the other hand of tion is to provide a rotating toy of the type charthe player grasping the ball ll, whereupon the acterized he'reinbefore which will carry downshaft It and the disk l8 secured thereon will be hanging ornaments, secondary or supplementary set into a quick rotary motion in a certain di- 5 toys, and other devices which will play when the rection, and when the cord l5 is pulled almost amount or the direction of the speed of the or-i'gentirely free of and off of the shaft it it will be inal toy is changed. quickly relaxed and loosened so that the rotation Other objects of this invention will be appaof the shaft it will wind it up thereon in the rent asthe specification of the same proceeds. opposite direction, whereupon the play described In the drawing forming a part of this specifihereinbefore may again begin, and so it may go 20 cation and accompanying the same:- on indefinitely by alternate quick jerks or pulls Fig. l is a semi-diagrammatical perspective and loosenings of the cord I5. view of one embodiment of my device, portions When the shaft H! and the weight I8 are of the same being broken away for the sake of thus put into quick and changing rotation in alclearness in showing; ternate directions, the toys 2! down-hanging 25 Fig. 2 is a view of another embodiment of my therefrom, will alternately rise and drop, which toy, the execution and character of the view bewill give an amusing and novel carousel effect ing similar to that shown in Fig. l, and portions to the device, and at the same time the movable of the device, when the same is exposed for inparts of the toys 20, like the propellers on the spection, being shown in an imaginary manner, airplanes, the wings on the birds, or the hammer 30 in dotted lines. of a bell, etc., will be set into motion in various Referring now to the drawing more closely by directions. Dancing toys may, in a similar mancharacters of reference, the numerals Iii indiner, be placed on the disk I8 and the ornaments cates a rotating rod, pin or shaft made of any 2| thereon may be of various colors and may aid appropriate material, preferably of metal. In in the'attractive and amusing effectsof the ro- 35 the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 said. shaft Ill is tating of the toy. terminated in a small ball or globe H by which In the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, shaft l0 it rests on a hollow sphere i2, passing through has a supporting ball I! secured below the top the same in an upper hole l3 and in a lower end of the shaft and within the hollow sphere I2, 40 hole [4. A cord I5 is secured to the shaft If! at so that the shaft is supported and rests on the 40 a point thereof normally Within the hollow inside surface of the hollow sphere, as shown. sphere l2,'said cord passing to the outside of the" The top end 23 of the shaft may be placed within hollow sphere through the opening it and being the hollow sphere l2,,but I prefer to form it in ended in an appropriate device, as in the ball or such a manner as to complete the globe of the globe II, to prevent its end from slipping into hollow sphere I2 and for this purpose I secure a 45 the hollow sphere l2. disk 24 at said end, which may be rotatable in an A comparatively heavy disk-shaped weight l8 opening 25 in the wall of the hollow sphere I2. is secured to the lower end of the shaft It and The shaft passes out of the hollow sphere at the on any appropriate yielding means secured to the bottom thereof through an opening it. A cord disk l8, as on the curved spring strips or arms i9, i5 is secured to the shaft in a similar manner de- 50 are carried various secondary or supplementary scribed hereinbefore, passing from the inside of toys and devices 20, said devices being in the form the hollow sphere to the outside thereof through of animals, airplanes, boats and butterflies with a hole l6 and being secured against slipping into swinging wings, as shown, but they may, of the hollow sphere by a ball 11. The operation course, be of other styles, like bells, etc., the purof this modification of my device is entirely simi- 55 lar to the earlier one, the only difference being that a globular weight 26 is shown here as secured to the lower end of the shaft instead of the disk [3, shown and described in connection with the earlier embodiment of my device.

The advantages of the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 over that shown in Fig. 1 are, that the support of the shaft is entirely hidden within the hollow sphere l2, giving my device a more interesting, novel and puzzling appearance; and that the hollow sphere I2 may be pushed downwardly along the shaft H3 into its position l2a shown by the dotted lines, this way entirely freeing and exposing the top end of the shaft Ii with its devices and with the respective portions of the cord l5, as indicated, by dotted lines, at I50.

Of course, the disk 2e may be entirely omitted and the hole 25 in the hollow sphere E2 made smaller accordingly, encircling the top end of the shaft itself, but in any case, I prefer to make said opening 25 larger in diameter than that of the ball ll so that the hollow sphere I2 may be pulled downwardly over said ball M.

It is also understood that instead of the ball I I a narrow shoulder may be formed on the shaft ID for the same purpose as said ball has been provided in the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In Fig. l of the drawing, it will be noted that the ends of the spring arms l9 are rolled to provide sleeve bearings for loosely receiving cross pins of staples fast with the toy devices or emblems 20.

It will be understood that changes and variations may be made in the parts and combinations of my device and I hereby reserve all my rights to any and all such changes as are within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new, is:

1. A toy comprising a globular shell having opposite bearings in the wall thereof a power driven shaft extending through said bearings; a rotary weight on the lower end of said shaft; downwardly and outwardly curved spring arms on said weight; circumferentially disposed bearings on the lower extremities of said arms and toy emblems pivoted in said bearings of the said arms for permitting swinging movements in diametrical planes relative to said weight and toward and away from the same when the arms are sprung outwardly by centrifugal force as the shaft and Weight are rotated, and means for imparting high speed rotary action in alternate opposite directions to the shaft and weight.

2. A toy comprising a shaft; a globular handle loosely arranged at the upper end of the shaft; a stop device fixed to the end of the shaft and limiting the upward movement of the handle; .a cord attached at one end to said shaft and passing outwardly through a hole in said loose globular handle; a disk-weight secured to the bottom of said shaft; spring arms curved outwardly and downwardly from said weight and fast therewith; bearings formed laterally of the ends of said arms; and toy figures each having means for pivotal connection with a respective arm for diametrically swinging movements in the rotary operation of the toy produced by pulling and slacking said cord at intervals.

ARNOLD STERN. 

